Kunstgeschichte

Curation as a concept and a catchword in modern parlance has, over recent decades, become deeply ingrained in modern culture. The purpose of this study is to explore the curatorial forces at work wit …

Francis L. Hawks’s "The Adventures of Daniel Boone" is an interesting biographical tale about the well-known lifestyles and adventures of Daniel Boone, a crucial American frontiersman. Hawk …

"The School for Scandal" is a comedy of manners play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It premiered at Drury Lane Theatre in London on May 8, 1777. The play is a quintessential example …

The Printed and the Built explores the intricate relationship between architecture and printed media in the fast-changing nineteenth century. Publication history is a rapidly expanding scholarly fiel …

Interior Design Masters contains 300 biographical entries of people who have significantly impacted design. They are the people, historical and contemporary, that students and practitioners should kn …

Combining the studies of modern film, traditional narratology, and Roman art, this interdisciplinary work explores the complex and highly visual techniques of Tacitus“ Annales. The volume opens with …

In this volume, a team of internationally respected contributors theorize the concept of aesthetic experience and its value. Exposing and expanding our restricted cultural and intellectual presupposi …

We don“t just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces we inhabit. We are born, work, love and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent it and squat in it, create …

Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne“s later writings, this collection makes a case for the seriousness and significance of the writer“s mature work. While Swinburne“s scandalous early poetry ha …

The main themes of this volume are the identification of “visions“, “messages“, and “meanings“ in various facets of Byzantine culture and the possible differences in the perception of these vis …